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An audit reveals that Louisiana has paid millions in Medicaid benefits to dead people.
Between 2019 and 2025, the state paid $9.6 million to more than a thousand people who had died.
The Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office made the discovery by cross-referencing the Social Security database.
State and federal Medicaid funds flow through third-party managed care organizations. For six years, they paid benefits to deceased people.
The state Department of Health has recovered $4 million of the misspent funds.
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